The Upper House passed a revision to the road transportation law on Friday that allows the fine for safety violations involving chartered buses to be hiked 100-fold to ¥100 million ($875,000). The revision follows a ski bus accident in Nagano Prefecture earlier this year ...

Efforts by a city in Iwate Prefecture to improve local bus services via customer input on cleverly designed questionnaires is garnering positive feedback on social media sites. The city of Takizawa has been distributing questionnaires that resemble bingo cards to passengers in the hope ...

Responding to a fatal ski bus crash in Nagano Prefecture last winter, the government said Tuesday it wants to make charter bus companies renew their business license every five years. Other change in the road transportation law sought by the government would raise the ...

It’s a terrestrial take on the luxurious ocean liner. Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. is offering tours by bus in spacious comfort for big-spending foreign visitors. It has remodeled a full-size 45-seater bus to seat only 10, giving them first-class space and service. The bus ...

A 64-year-old bus driver had a stroke and partially fell unconscious while driving on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line Highway in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday, hitting a car ahead of him and straying onto the median strip, police and bus operators said Thursday. The bus ...

The transport ministry is further tightening regulations to ensure the safety of tour buses, following Japan’s worst tour bus accident in decades in January. On Jan. 15 a ski tour bus with 41 people veered off the road and slid down a mountainside in ...

An increasing number of expressway bus services based at Narita International Airport are extending their reach to cover distant tourist areas, such as the central Hokuriku region. The trend is a result of collaborative efforts being made by Narita International Airport Corp., bus lines ...

Last week’s deadly ski tour bus crash in Nagano Prefecture has revealed limits to inspections by the transport ministry, which failed to detect slapdash operations at ESP, the Tokyo-based operator of the vehicle. An expert pointed out that the number of inspectors at the ...

A bus crashed into an apartment building in Koganei, Tokyo, Thursday after knocking down a traffic light and a bus stop sign, police said. The 49-year-old bus driver was injured. No passengers were on the bus, which left the bus shed and was heading ...

At least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge, falling about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad state of the ...

At least four people were killed and several were critically injured on Thursday when a bus collided with a tour vehicle on a bridge in Seattle, officials said. Lieutenant Sue Stangl, of the Seattle fire department, told reporters that 50 people were evacuated from ...

A tourist bus slammed into a tree along the road in Kumamoto Prefecture, injuring 20 South Korean passengers on board, police said. The injuries were not life-threatening and the passengers all remained conscious, they added. The police said the bus had been driving on ...